>>51847068Overall, I honestly think HGSS or BW were my favorite. This doesn't mean the games are perfect, but they're definitely my favorites. HGSS was a remake, but it added so much. It was such a competent game on top of that, with features that Gamefreak are STILL having to add to games to try and hype people up about them. Not just pokemon following, but the camera tricks, the picture taking, the little interactions with your own Pokemon, the fucking Gameboy music toggle. Everything about HGSS oozed fucking soul and attention. It was like the people working on it had respect for it and wanted to work on it. Even the localization was somehow better than typical Pokemon games. They retranslated some stuff and removed the slot machines (which pissed me off) but Voltorb flip grew on me really fucking fast and the translation was technically closer to the original.
BW was good too. It felt like a new game with new Pokemon, but the old ones were still there in post game. It still had a National Dex also, obviously. Moving sprites was an interesting concept and it's a shame that they were only used in 2 games. Its also a shame that so many of them were phoned in, but that's the one "GF being lazy" moment I can actually accept as fair. The world was interesting and deep, the music was fucking PHENOMENAL and I really appreciated the Pokemon designs. Concepts in BW should have continued to be there going forward, but weren't. Stuff like the shaking grass patches or the water ripples. I mean, gen 8 kind of had those? But they were a pale imitation. The Dream World and Bank were also pretty advanced concepts for GF at the time, but they clearly wanted to do something neat. Also, registering anything in your menu instead of just items? Yes please. It felt again like someone actually cared when they were making this game.
As a result both games kind of stand above a lot of the others. They both felt really good to play despite some of their short comings.
